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>There’s that pesky left/right ear difference again. The left/right ear differences may have to do with the majority of people being right handed. If you are u
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y ago
>There’s that pesky left/right ear difference again.
The left/right ear differences may have to do with the majority of people being right handed. If you are using a Q-tip on your own ear, you have to use the same sided hand to clean the ear. Thus, you probably do a better job with your right ear than with your left ear, if, like most people, you are right handed.
- kgwxd 6y agoI use my dominant hand for both ears.
- yboris 6y agoI use both hands on both ears. Going cross-ear lets me get a different angle I can't seem to match with the corresponding-side hand.
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- junga 6y agoJust asked my significant other about this. She uses her right hand for her left ear.
- bluGill 6y agoThe study was specifically of children, including enough that are too young to clean their own ears. So this handedness theory doesn't check out.
- hnracer 6y agoThe study mixed older children with younger ones. The younger ones have no handedness bias but the older ones may have. The presence of these older children may have been sufficient to cause the asymmetric p values that we saw.
- dtech 6y agoHe literally addresses that in the article